Are you an American forced to eat that Hershey's baby vomit flavored milk chocolate like me? European milk chocolate is amazing.
I've been keeping a list of things that 20 year old naive me thought were absolutely disgusting and that mature me finds fucking fantastic now:
Sushi/sashimi - ewww, raw fish
Museums - ewww, art and history
Blue Cheese - ewww, moldy cheese
Raw Oysters - ewww, booger seafood
Pedicures - ewww, someone painting my toenails
Kimchi - ewww, fermented jar cabbage
Asian fish sauce - ewww, fermented fish juice
OP - ewww, internet stranger
Edit: I like dark chocolate too but it doesn't have the same je ne sais quoi as saying "raw fish" or "moldy cheese".
Definitely. I think imposter syndrome is basically the same phenomenon.
I used to think there was this Council of Smart People running the world and keeping the nuclear weapons from accidentally launching and the planes from crashing and the electricity on and the bridges from collapsing.
It can't just be me and all the absolute idiots I grew up with now running the world. That can't be right. Oh, Jesus...oh no.
If this gif wasn't in here I was gonna be upset!
I've considered growing a goatee and using stick on mutton chops to cosplay Thomas Riker at conventions.
The Genie knew. Genies are jerks.
That "adults" are just kids that got older. Same goes for "old people". Everyone was once a 14 year old. There is no dividing line where you suddenly become an adult, and there is no dividing line between being an adult and being old.
We're all born, and we live a life of days, months years, decades... it's just you and your one, single life. You're always going to be you.
Make this one life count. Don't wait. Don't procrastinate. Make shit happen. You'll regret it if you don't.
PCs and all devices will become more locked down, with a small rebellious minority. Pretty much what we have today, but the divide will become greater.
All consumer devices are designed for the consumer to consume content. Music, Movies, Books, TV Shows, Web Sites, Social Media, Video Games...all of it. Very, very few people at the consumer level use computing power to perform complex calculations or process large datasets.
All of that content is someone else's creation, and they want to get paid for their creation. Either by you directly purchasing/subscribing to what they've created, or via advertisers. Everyone has rent or a mortgage and bills to pay and they want to buy food and buy stuff for their kids.
Any time you sit in front of a screen, whether it's a TV or a PC or a smartphone and begin to consume content, think about that. Whoever created what you're looking at wants money, just like you want money.
So when a PC isn't locked down to make sure you're somehow paying for the content you consume, that upsets the entire supply chain that is delivering this content to your eyes and ears. They have to make sure they're somehow getting paid...
Firefly. Specifically, Shepherd Book's backstory.
This mirrored/asymmetrical stuff is mostly wrong. It can definitely cause an "uncanny" vibe but doesn't explain why you're a 7/10 in the mirror and a 3/10 in a photo.
You look different in the mirror versus photos because of the different focal length, different depth of field, and different angle.
I look pretty good to my own eye in the mirror but look like an absolute blumpkin in photos. However, you can take a pretty good selfie that looks like what you see in the mirror by placing the camera about 4 feet away from you and at a slightly elevated angle.
I mean getting 4 or 8 or 12 or 16 hours a day of work out of me is kind of ridiculous anyway. I don't have a job where X hours = Y production. "40 hours" a week is just my employer's antiquated way of quantifying my work. I would prefer they just let me handle my responsibilities.
It's brutal, isn't it?
When you realize that your parents also wanted to eat cookies and Ruffles all the time too, but they didn't want to die early and are just making you eat healthy so you don't die early.
Ugh...